7. Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task (The Continuity Editing Task), What Do You Feel You Have

Learnt In The Progression From It To Full Product?

By Jamie Tilsley

Preliminary Task

Analysing Preliminary TaskCriticism 1• The lack of dialogue may of made the audience bored as not

much was said to keep the audience engaged and this also shows that the situation isn’t very relatable as people wouldn’t have short, meaningless conversations like this.

Criticism 2• We didn’t have a tripod available to us at the time so the

shots appeared shaky and unprofessional which makes the audience focus more on the wobbliness of the camera, rather than what is going on in the scene.

Preliminary Task

Analysing Preliminary taskCriticism 3• The simple long walking sequence of Ashley will

make the audience bored and will not allow them to become immersed into the film, making the film worse.

Criticism 4The unrelatable situation where nothing really happens

is bad for the audience as two friends talking about water isn't an engaging situation.

AS Film Opening

Analysing AS Film Opening

Improvement 1• The first improvement is our use of creative camera

shots in order to make the scenes more mysterious by not showing the killers face, engaging the audience as they wonder what the killer looks like.

Improvement 2• The second improvement is our variety of shots to

keep the audience interested as they are constantly shown different angles and being kept entertained.

AS Film Opening

Analysing AS Film Opening

Improvement 3• The change of scenes in our film is an improvement as it

makes a shift in scenery and makes the audience entertained as they are sent to a new location by our film.

Improvement 4• Another thing which makes our film better is the inclusion

of a story, compared to our preliminary task where there hardly was one. The inclusion of a story means the audience have something to follow and be intrigued by.